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section heading icon     Holdings

This listing is indicative only.

subsection heading icon    Books/Publishing

General Interest imprints and book clubs -

 Bantam Doubleday Dell group

 Bantam Books

 Doubleday

 Dell - Delacorte

 Broadway Books

 Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

 Bantam Doubleday Audio

 Bantam Books Canada

 Doubleday Canada

 Transworld Publishers (UK, Australia, New Zealand)

 Doubleday Direct (direct marketing book operations)

 Literary Guild

 Doubleday Book Club

 Crossings

 Random House 

 Random House Trade Publishing Group

 Random House Information Publishing Group

 Knopf Publishing Group

 Crown Publishing Group

 Ballantine Publishing Group

 Random House Children's Publishing

 Random House Audio

 Random House Value Publishing

 Fodors Travel Publications

 Random House New Media

 Random House Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

Barrie & Jenkins

Bodley Head

Jonathan Cape

Century

Chatto & Windus

Doubleday

Ebury Press

Expert Books

Hutchinson

Julia MacRae

Partridge

Stanley Paul

Pimlico

Secker & Warburg

Sinclair Stevenson

Tellastory

Transworld

Yellow Jersey

Arrow

Black Swan

Corgi

Dell

Fodor's

Mandarin

Minerva

Red Fox

Sweet Valley

Vermilion

Vintage

Bertelsmann Publishing Group -

 Bee Book - German educational and informational CD-ROM imprints

 Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag - German encyclopedias

 Donauland - Austrian book and music club

 Science Fiction Book Club

 Bold Type

Online Book Sales

 barnesandnoble.com - joint venture with Barnes & Noble

 BOL

Trade Publications

ABI Building Data

AZ Bertelsmann - direct marketing service provider

BauNetz - German online service for architects

Entertainment Media Verlag - publishes in fields of movies, television, cinema

ICW Publications - construction industry information provider

MMV Medizin Verlag - German weekly medical magazine

Wila Verlag - insurance & legal specialist publisher

BertelsmannSpringer Verlag (86.5%) academic and professional magazine and specialist book publisher (unrelated to the Axel Springer group) was sold to Cinven and Candover in 2003, merged with Kluwer Academic Publishers and renamed Springer Science+Business Media. It included -

investment in US Key Curriculum

Springer Science

Princeton Architectural Press

Platow

Birkhauser

Verkehr Online - online service for German road haulage industry

Heinrich Vogel Verlag - transportation publisher

Bauerverlag

SpringerLink

Arzte Zeitung

Heinrich Vogel

Gabler/Vieweg/Westdeutscher Verlag - publishes in fields of technology/science

subsection heading icon    Broadcasting

Bertelsmann controls RTL (the former CLT-UFA). RTL is a major European television/radio broadcaster and content producer. Its units include -

Germany

RTL

RTL-2 (34.5%)

SUPER RTL (50% with Disney)

Premiere World (formerly 5% with Kirch)

VOX

RTL Radio (Germany)

UK

Channel 5

France

FUN TV

M6

Multivision

Teva

Netherlands

RTL - 4

RTL - 5

RTL - 9

RTL - Tele Letzebuerg

RTL Klub (Hungary)

subsection heading icon    Television Production

UFA Film & TV Production

Trebitsch Production

Delux Productions (Luxembourg)

Cinevideo (Canada)

Holland Media House (Netherlands)

First Choice (UK)

subsection heading icon    Gruner & Jahr Magazines

Bertelsmann now has a 75% stake in Gruner + Jahr, the German-based magazine group

Germany

Brigitte

Capital

Eltern

Frau im Spiegel

Schoener Wohnen

Der Spiegel (25%)

Flora

 Geo

Geo Saison

Oskar's

P.M.

Stern

Tip

TV Today

North America

American Homestyle

Child

Family Circle (majority owner)

Fitness

McCall's (majority owner)

Parents (majority owner)

YM Magazines (majority owner)

Supplements

Computer & Co (computer magazine)

rtv (television programming magazine)

subsection heading icon    Online and Multimedia services

AOL Europe (50% with AOL)

AOL Germany (45% with AOL)

AOL France (50% with AOL)

bs medic

Sport 1

Lycos Europe

CD Now

Bertelsmann Interactive Studios

subsection heading icon    Information Technology Services

 Bertelsmann mediaSystems

 Bertelsmann Corporate Information Systems

 mediaWays

 Pixelpark

 Telemedia

 Services

 eps Bertelsmann

 Mount Media - German media online service

subsection heading icon    Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)

BMG North America (Record Labels and Clubs)

 Arista Records

 RCA and RCA Victor

 BMG Classics

 BMG Music Publishing

 BMG Music Service

 BMG Special Products

 Windham Hill Group

 Bugjuice

 Peeps Republic

 Twang This!

International

BMG Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

 BMG Germany Interactive

 BMG Germany Studios

 BMG Germany Video

subsection heading icon    CD Pressing

Sonopress - CD manufacturers with locations in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa

subsection heading icon    Newspapers

Holdings across Central Europe, including
Nepszahadsag, former Communist Party central organ in Budapest




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